Gopher

TCP/IP application layer protocol
Organization service_on_internet Q322654
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Gopher

Summary

Gopher is a service on Internet[1]. Gopher draws 2,386 Wikipedia views per month (service_on_internet category, ranking #12 of 44).[2]

Key Facts

  • Gopher's instance of is recorded as service on Internet[3].
  • Gopher's instance of is recorded as computer network protocol[4].
  • Gopher's instance of is recorded as hypertext system[5].
  • Goldy Gopher is named after Gopher[6].
  • gofer is named after Gopher[7].
  • Geomyidae is named after Gopher[8].
  • Gopher was followed by World Wide Web[9].
  • Gopher's developer is recorded as Mark P. McCahill[10].
  • Gopher's developer is recorded as University of Minnesota[11].
  • Gopher was published on 1991[12].
  • Gopher's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Gopher (protocol)[13].
  • Gopher's described at URL is recorded as http://archives.lib.umn.edu/repositories/3/resources/307[14].
  • Gopher's described by source is recorded as RFC 1436: The Internet Gopher Protocol (a distributed document search and retrieval protocol)[15].
  • Gopher's described by source is recorded as RFC 4266: The gopher URI Scheme[16].
  • Gopher's topic has template is recorded as Template:Gopher clients[17].
  • Gopher's port is recorded as {'amount': '+70'}[18].
  • Gopher's port is recorded as {'amount': '+70'}[19].
  • Gopher's name in kana is recorded as ゴーファー[20].
  • Gopher's OSI Model layer location is recorded as application layer[21].

Body

Identity

Gopher was followed by World Wide Web[9].

Why It Matters

Gopher draws 2,386 Wikipedia views per month (service_on_internet category, ranking #12 of 44).[2] Gopher has Wikipedia articles in 25 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[22] Gopher is known by 17 alternative names across languages and contexts.[23]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . mediamill.cla.umn.edu. mediamill.cla.umn.edu. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . mediamill.cla.umn.edu. mediamill.cla.umn.edu. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . mediamill.cla.umn.edu. mediamill.cla.umn.edu. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [22] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [23] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 1d ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-19 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Developer Mark P. McCahill, University of Minnesota
    Port {'amount': '+70'}, {'amount': '+70'}
    Topic has template Template:Gopher clients
    Instance of
    + 12 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|4 */ [[Property:P2347]]: 20589, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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